[NTLUG:Discuss] fips and XP

[Chris Cox]

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Fred James wrote:
| Has anyone tried fips on XP yet?
| Has anyone tried to shrink an XP partition to make room for Linux yet?
| I have never done this before, but I am getting ready to try it on a
| (Dell) OEM XP installation to make a dual boot machine, and would
| appreciate any insight anyone would care to share.
| Thanks.
|

I just helped someone with a similar situation.  In his case,
he used a brand new copy of Parition Magic... guess what... it
didn't work right!  So we just reinstalled XP from the recovery
CD with his Dell... no problem.  At least it doesn't use
a mandatory reformat/repartition like the Toshiba disks
do (unless you know the secret of course).

We didn't try fips... I would think that it would be risky
at best... but I have a feeling that it's not even supported.

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